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Meteorites and their Impact on Earth
Title: Meteorites and their Impact on Earth
Author of the activity: Eleftheria Tsourlidaki, Fraser Lewis
Brief Description: This activity demonstrates the different ways meteorite impacts may affect our lives and our planet.
Subject Domains: Biology: The impact of meteorite impacts on living beings and the extinction of some of them. | Chemistry: Meteorites bring on Earth elements that did not exist on the planet before, Physics: The physics behind impacts, Environmental Sciences: Meteorites play a role in shaping Earth's surface.
Keywords: craters, impact, dinosaurs, lakes, Earth surface, key elements of life
Age Range:13-14,15-16
Didactical Hours: aprox. 3-4 didactical hours
Suggestion of possible collaborations between teachers: This project includes activities from many disciplines and diffrent investigation phases (eg. study of impacts and the extinction of dinosaurs) that can be carried out collaboratively by science teachers.
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PLATON is a two-year European project launched on September 2016. It aspires to provide teachers and school communities with a coherent teachers’ training framework which will update their current teaching practices. More particularly, PLATON aims to offer an open and innovative training framework to teachers of primary and secondary education which will focus on:
- Promoting student-centred teaching approaches;
- Promoting a holistic interdisciplinary approach;
- Support the use of online educational tools;
- Support the meaningful collaboration between teachers of the same school.
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